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Senior Data Scientist, Investing Data Science
@Wealthsimple
[Hiring] Senior Data Scientist, Investing Data Science @Wealthsimple
Apr 03, 2025 - Wealthsimple is hiring a remote Senior Data Scientist, Investing Data Science. 💸 Salary: competitive salary with top-tier health benefits. 📍Location: Canada.
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Role Description
At Wealthsimple, our Investing teams are the driving force behind Self Directed Investing and Managed Invest products. We are hiring for an experienced data scientist to join our Investing DSE team. This individual will work on some of the highest priority initiatives at Wealthsimple, ensuring that our product strategy is well grounded in data analytics.
- Analyze user behaviour to understand how clients interact with the product
- Develop and implement experiments to evaluate new features and product changes
- Apply causal inference methods in non-experimental settings
- Use machine learning algorithms to segment users and personalize product experiences
- Develop and maintain core data models and pipelines to ensure data quality and accessibility
In this role, you will have the opportunity to:
- Partner with our Product, Product Marketing, and Engineering teams to support work across some of Wealthsimple's highest priority efforts
- Build robust, efficient, and integrated data models in cloud data warehouses that will be used as the source of truth for analytics across the Investing product organization
- Apply statistical techniques and build machine learning models to solve real life product problems and to inform product decisions and strategies
- Apply software engineering best practices like version control and continuous integration to the analytics code base; ensure data models are well tested, documented and maintained
- Translate business requirements into data models and analysis that will help stakeholders answer key business questions and inform strategic decisions
- Continuously look for the simplest, most effective way to approach challenges; Occam's razor is your friend
- Take ownership and ship it
- Work where you are (while our Canadian offices are located in Toronto, we are a remote-first workforce and you can join from anywhere in Canada)
Qualifications
- Strong business acumen and product sense
- Excellent Python and SQL skills, first hand experience working with popular Python libraries such as Pandas, scikit-learn, numpy and Jupyter
- Strong understanding of statistics: both frequentist and Bayesian approaches
- Strong understanding of fundamental machine-learning algorithms: regression and decision trees
Requirements
- Able to articulate their stance in a manner that effectively collaborates with different stakeholders
- Adjusts quickly to changing priorities and effectively manages complexity and change
- Has exceptional communication skills and is able to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical teams
- Eager to teach and learn from your team. We value making each other successful
- A lifelong learner. You're constantly seeking and welcoming feedback to continue improving yourself and your craft
Benefits
- Competitive salary with top-tier health benefits and life insurance
- Retirement savings matching plan using Wealthsimple Work
- 20 vacation days per year and unlimited sick and mental health days
- Up to $1,500 per year towards wellness and professional development budgets respectively
- 90 days away program: Employees can work internationally in eligible countries for up to 90 days per calendar year
- A wide variety of peer and company-led Employee Resource Groups (ie. Rainbow, Women of Wealthsimple, Black @ WS)
- Company-wide wellness days off scheduled throughout the year
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Data Analysis
Data Analysis
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Salary
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competitive salary with top-tier health benefits
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Remote
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Canada
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Posted
Apr 03, 2025
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| 📍 | Be aware of the location restriction for this remote position: Canada |
| ‼ | Beware of scams! When applying for jobs, you should NEVER have to pay anything. Learn more. |
